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Family Support Worker

Job Description

Job Title: Senior Family Support Worker
Pay Rate: £15.84 per hour
Contract: 3 months, with potential to extend or become permanent
Hours: Full-time, 37 hours per week (Monday to Friday, 8:45 AM - 5:15 PM)
Location: Birmingham, B15

Are you passionate about supporting families and making a positive impact on children's lives? Do you have the skills and experience to lead and deliver high-quality family support services? If so, we'd love to hear from you!

About the Role

As a Senior Family Support Worker, you'll play a key role in providing early help and safeguarding services to children, young people, and their families. Working within a multi-disciplinary team, you'll:

  • Act as a lead professional, coordinating multi-agency plans of intervention.
  • Deliver evidence-based interventions to promote positive change and improve outcomes.
  • Champion specific practice areas (e.g., domestic violence, substance misuse, or parenting) and provide advice and workshops as needed.
  • Manage a complex caseload, ensuring effective case recording and reporting.
  • Collaborate with families, agencies, and professionals to support children's welfare and development.

What We're Looking For

  • Experience: Previous experience working with children and families in a care or safeguarding setting.
  • Knowledge: A solid understanding of social work practices, legislation, and statutory frameworks for children and families.
  • Driving Licence with access to your own vehicel
  • Skills: Strong communication, organisational, and teamwork skills, with the ability to lead multi-agency plans and maintain accurate records.
  • Commitment: A proactive approach to promoting equality, diversity, and safeguarding children and young people.

If you are interested or know of anyone who may be, please contact Kat at Service Care Solutions on 01772208964 or send your CV to kat.shah@servicecare.org.uk.

Working with Service Care Solutions comes with many benefits, including:

  • A specialist consultant within an experience and dedicated recruitment team
  • Excellent rates of pay
  • Payroll service twice a week

Service Care Solutions also offers a £250 referral bonus! So if you know of anyone who would be perfect for this position and they are placed into work, you will receive £250 for the referral once their probationary period has been completed.